Shakespeare makes life better.
Most of the posts in this category are simply leftovers from a previous era before the site had categories. Over time I plan to reduce that number to zero and remove this category. Until then, here they are. I had to put something in the box.
More coverage for the less popular plays. “The Book Mine Set” blog has a post up about Coriolanus. If I remember correctly, this is the one where Coriolanus tries to become a Roman politician, fails, then plots to attack Rome only to be talked out of it by his mom. But I could have some of that wrong, it’s been awhile.
I’m finding some good geeky Shakespeare stuff lately. How about a Google Earth representation of all the places Shakespeare ever mentioned? I don’ t have Google Earth installed, but you can look at it on Google Maps, too. Neat! I don’t see The Tempest listed. That would have been funny.
http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/16/the-tudors-an-early-look/ Ok, I don’t get Showtime so I can’t really watch this, someone else will have to tell me if it’s any good. Certainly a different picture of Henry VIII then we’re all used to. There’ll be no big fat guy with a turkey leg in this story.
[ I dig the irony of Chow setting up a contest that he knows is incredibly spammy and then making part of the rules be that you have to link the phrase “root of all evil” to his web site. ] The root of all evil, John Chow is giving away a Nintendo Wii. To enter, all I have to do is write a blog post about it. So here you go.The contest is sponsored by 1234Pens.com. They make promotional pens. Sorry for the spam. But my kids would dig a Wii. Who wouldn’t?
Big week for celebrating silly holidays if you’re both a geek and a Shakespeare geek. Today is Pi Day. Get it? 3/14? Happy Pi Day, everybody! And tomorrow, of course, 3/15 is the Ides of March. Beware! I should have planned to use my two floating holidays at work back to back. I wonder if people would look at me funny? You know, funnier than they usually do. (One of my children was born on August 24, and it crosses my brain everytime her birthday comes up that August is the 8th month and 8 evenly divides 24. My oldest was born on 7/8, and my youngest was born on May 4, 2006. If we lived in a country that did the dd/mm/yyyy thing he could have a truly geek 4/5/6 birthday.)